TL;DR: Get four Microsoft deals in one bundle: 2019 Office, Visio, and Project, with Windows 11 Pro, all for only $79.97! Like most things in life, Microsoft tools work their very best when they're used all together. Why settle for just one Microsoft program when you can four for the price of one? — Read the rest The post Microsoft Office, Visio,...

Pete O'Connell at vinepair.com has done us the favor of compiling what he calls "The 5 Worst Booze Ads of All Time." I disagree strongly with the first two I liked: a Falstaff beer commercial from the 1950s/1960s and a Schlitz beer campaign from 1977. — Read the rest The post Vinepairs' five worst booze ads of all time appeared first on Boing Boing.

The New York Times wanted to summon one of its favorite characters: an everyday Dem so upset with the Left that they were going to vote for Donald Trump instead. It found it in Anna Anaya, notable to it only for being a 58-year-old who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but now likes the other guy. — Read the rest The post The New York Times' pro-Trump Democrat...

Check out Belgian musician Max Vandervorst playing a fantastic (and fantastical!) instrument he made—the porciphone. The what, you ask? Rare and Strange Instruments describes the porciphone as a "tuned pipe instrument played with two plastic pigs." Maybe you have to see it to understand. — Read the rest The post Behold the wonders of the porciphone!...

Apologizing to the cats, JD Vance attempts to cast his disparaging childless women as funny ha-ha. Trump's new liability, Vice Presidential running mate JD Vance's non-apology for his cat lady remarks, only serves to remind everyone that he thinks women's worth is only in being an incubator. — Read the rest The post JD Vance mansplains his "sarcasm"...

The famed animatronic performers at kids' party restaurant Chuck E. Cheese are finally being taken out back, victim to changing trends, spiraling maintenance costs and the improved advertising revenues offered by the screens that shall replace them. The New York Times recently said goodbye to the mechanical marvels (archive.org — Read the rest The...